12.03.25: Dream Markets

In the future, people buy and sell dreams. You wake up from a wild one and upload it, turning subconscious chaos into currency. Dream traders build portfolios, chasing demand for flying sequences, lost loves, even nightmares. At first, it’s entertainment. Then corporations step in. Advertising slips into dreams, product placement stitched into REM cycles. People forget what’s real, what’s purchased, what’s their own mind. Eventually, the black market grows. Unfiltered dreams. Pure, unedited subconscious. The kind of dreams you can’t buy. And suddenly, people start valuing nightmares again, because at least those feel real.